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title: He couldn't supply goods fast enough; purchasers carried off everyth… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: He couldn't supply goods fast enough; purchasers carried off everything in a twinkling. Who acts: business, purchasers. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 9

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He couldn't supply goods fast enough; purchasers carried off everything in a twinkling.

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**Who acts:** business, purchasers · **What happens:** not supply, carry off · **To what, where:** goods, everything, twinkling

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business, purchasers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:16:9
# text = He couldn't supply goods fast enough; purchasers carried off everything in a twinkling.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	supply	supply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	purchasers	purchaser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **supply** | could | business | goods |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Recipient |
| 2 | **carry off** | past | purchasers | everything |  | a twinkling |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Value in twinkling=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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